LOST LEMURIA

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 9

LOST LEMURIA

TRACES OF CONTINENT

BENEATH INDIAN OCEAN

RESULTS OF SURVEY.

United Prcs3 Association—By- Electric TeleBraph—Copyright. (Beceived December 13, 10 a.m.) CALCUTTA, December 12. Traces of Lemuria, the supposed lost continent of the Indian Ocean, stretching from India to- the African and Arabian coasts were discovered by Sir John Murray's oceanographie expedition, which has completed three months' survey of the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, and Gulf of Onian. Investigations wero cai-ried out in the Egyptian Government's survey ship Mabasiss, which steamed 18,747 miles and surveyed largo areas of the ocean bed. The discoveries included ten submarine hill ranges, running northeast to south-west across the Gulf of Aden, and between India and Arabia two submerged mountain chains, a raised plateau, and a deep valley which are not recorded in the present charts. The general configuration of the area from the entrance of tho Gulf of Aden to the Indian coast leaves little doubt that the sea floor was once a large land area and the deep valley was probably a large river bed. Two areas were found where there was no animal life on the bottom. One of these was in the Bed Sea where there wero no living organisms below 250 fathoms.